Cinderbrew Meadery Guide
Last Updated:February 25, 2025|Changelog
Welcome to the Cinderbrew Meadery Mythic+ guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.1! This guide covers everything you need to know about your upcoming dungeon runs!
Route
It is recommended to use the Mythic Dungeon Tools addon to look at your route and mobcount before the Mythic+ dungeon starts. Below you can see an example of a Weekly Route meant for +10 keys or lower. High Key Route will be added later into the season!
Simply import the route into the Mythic Dungeon Tool addon and take a look at it with your group.

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Utility Needs
- Thirsty
- An Enrage buff that multiple mobs in this dungeon can gain. Especially scary on the casters or tank adds.
- Spill Drink
- An Enrage buff that increases damage done by a Taste Tester which makes missing a kick on this mob way more dangerous.
- Bee-stial Wrath
- An Enrage buff that increases damage done by a Bee Wrangler and nearby bees. Might be scary in combination with many Shredding Sting Bleeds from bees.
- Interruptible.
- An Enrage buff that increases damage done by a Bee Wrangler and nearby bees. Might be scary in combination with many Shredding Sting Bleeds from bees.
- Common utility examples:
- Hunter
- Tranquilizing Shot
- Rogue
- Shiv
- Druid
- Soothe
- Evoker
- Oppressing Roar with Overawe
- Monk
- Paralysis with Pressure Points
- Hunter
- Mean Mug
- A stacking Bleed debuff on a tank that can lead to some issues if not controlled properly.
- Shredding Sting
- A stacking Bleed debuff, can be dangerous if a single player gets multiple of those.
- Common utility examples:
- Evoker
- Cauterizing Flame
- Paladin
- Blessing of Protection
- Evoker
- Erupting Inferno
- A hard hitting Magic DoT that in combination with any other incoming damage may easily lead to death.
- Interruptible.
- A hard hitting Magic DoT that in combination with any other incoming damage may easily lead to death.
- Burning Fermentation
- Fire Magic DoT during the I'pa boss encounter. Can be useful to have a second dispel due to it being applied to two players at the same time.
- Common utility examples:
- Priest
- Mass Dispel
- Warlock
- Singe Magic
- Priest
- Rejuvenating Honey
- A Magic buff that heals over 18 seconds.
- Interruptible
- A Magic buff that heals over 18 seconds.
- Common utility examples:
- Warlock
- Devour Magic
- Hunter
- Tranquilizing Shot
- Priest
- Dispel Magic and Mass Dispel
- Shaman
- Purge
- Mage
- Spellsteal
- Demon Hunter
- Consume Magic
- Warlock
Brew Master Aldryr Trash Area
- Compliments of the Chef
- An aura that increases damage done of nearby allies and makes them immune to crowd control.
- Tenderize
- An AoE knock that also inflicts physical damage to anyone around 50 yards away from Chef Chewie.
- High Steaks
- A channeled cast during which Chef Chewie spawns ground effects that deal physical damage and stuns players standing in them.

- Required Magic Dispel:
- Erupting Inferno
- Applies a Magic debuff to a random player, inflicting fire damage for 9 seconds.
- Dispelling these whenever possible greatly reduces the overall damage taken by the group.
- Applies a Magic debuff to a random player, inflicting fire damage for 9 seconds.
- Erupting Inferno
- Required Enrage Dispel:
- Thirsty
- After some time of engaging with the mob, it gains an Enrage buff that increases its attack and cast speed.
- Soothing it greatly decreases the danger of the mob.
- After some time of engaging with the mob, it gains an Enrage buff that increases its attack and cast speed.
- Thirsty
- Required Kick:
- Boiling Flames
- A channeled cast that fixates on a random player.
- Boiling Flames

- Required Bleed Dispel:
- Mean Mug
- Applies a stacking Bleed debuff to a tank.
- Consider dispelling those whenever your tank gains too many of the Bleed stacks.
- Applies a stacking Bleed debuff to a tank.
- Mean Mug
- Required Enrage Dispel:
- Thirsty
- After some time of engaging with the mob, it gains an Enrage buff that increases its attack and cast speed.
- Soothing it greatly decreases the danger of the mob.
- After some time of engaging with the mob, it gains an Enrage buff that increases its attack and cast speed.
- Thirsty

- Volatile Keg
- An aoe cast that inflicts fire dot to every member of your group.
- Throw Chair
- A single target cast inflicting physical damage on a random player.
- Required Enrage Dispel:
- Thirsty
- After some time of engaging with the mob, it gains an Enrage buff that increases its attack and cast speed.
- Soothing it greatly decreases the danger of the mob.
- After some time of engaging with the mob, it gains an Enrage buff that increases its attack and cast speed.
- Thirsty

- Cinderbrew Toss
- Spawns a ground effect that deals fire damage and disorients anyone standing in it.

Brew Master Aldryr
- Brew Master Aldryr smashes his current target, inflicting physical damage and knocking them back.
- Spawns few pools of Hot Honey during the knock. These pools persist for a long time, make sure to not spawn it in an awkward place where it can be an issue for you during the Happy Hour phase. Preferably do it on the sides of the room.

- A big frontal cone inflicting fire damage.
- Always try to be close to the boss to have an easier time dodging the Blazing Belch.

- Fire DoT that is applied to 2 random players.
- Spawns Hot Honey under afflicted players upon application.
- Use a personal whenever you get hit by Throw Cinderbrew.

- Whenever Brew Master Aldryr drops down to 66% and 33% health, the intermission phase starts.
- During the phase boss takes almost no damage due to Disregard buff and players need to do a minigame by delivering Thirsty Patrons their cinderbrew.
- Until being fed, Thirsty Patrons cast Rowdy Yell and do damage to the group while also reducing their haste.
- To pick up the cinderbrew you need to click on a mug that's being placed on the bar. After that run towards the Thirsty Patrons and the mug will be delivered automatically once you are close to any of the patrons.
- You can use any movement abilities available during delivering the mug to deal with the phase faster.
- Once you feed all the Thirsty Patrons, a few Crawling Brawls appear which are moving pools on the ground that you need to avoid.
- Coming into contact with one will lead to suffering physical damage and getting stunned.

I'pa Trash Area
- Reckless Delivery
- Long channeled cast on a random player that will be targeted by Careless Hopgoblin to charge towards, inflicting physical damage and knocking players in its path.
- Careless Hopgoblin is getting Stunned upon hitting the wall after the charge and spawns few Brew Drops.
- Always try to aim him to the closest wall to avoid pulling any unnecessary packs.
- Long channeled cast on a random player that will be targeted by Careless Hopgoblin to charge towards, inflicting physical damage and knocking players in its path.

- Required Kick:
- Free Samples?
- Casts at a random player and deals fire damage.
- Free Samples?
- Required Enrage Dispel:
- Spill Drink
- Grants an Enrage buff to a Taste Tester, increasing their damage done.
- Soothe it whenever possible, especially if you know that Free Samples? is going to get through.
- Grants an Enrage buff to a Taste Tester, increasing their damage done.
- Spill Drink

- Required Magic Dispel:
- Erupting Inferno
- Applies a Magic debuff to a random player, inflicting fire damage for 9 seconds.
- Dispeling these whenever possible greatly reduces overall damage taken by the group.
- Applies a Magic debuff to a random player, inflicting fire damage for 9 seconds.
- Erupting Inferno
- Required Enrage Dispel:
- Thirsty
- After some time of engaging with the mob, it gains an Enrage buff that increases its attack and cast speed.
- Soothing it greatly decreases the danger of the mob.
- After some time of engaging with the mob, it gains an Enrage buff that increases its attack and cast speed.
- Thirsty
- Required Kick:
- Boiling Flames
- A channeled cast that fixates on a random player.
- Boiling Flames

- Required Kick:
- Rejuvenating Honey
- Applies a Magic buff to an ally that heals it over 18 seconds.
- Purge it in case a kick was missed.
- Rejuvenating Honey
- Failed Batch
- Summons a Failed Batch that starts a 10 second cast which inflicts AoE fire damage to all players upon succeeding.
- Focus it immediately because letting it go through may easily lead to a wipe.
- AoE spells do work on a Failed Batch so it can also be passively cleaved down if you have enough damage.
- Summons a Failed Batch that starts a 10 second cast which inflicts AoE fire damage to all players upon succeeding.

- Oozing Honey
- Drops a pool on the ground that shrinks over time.

I'pa
- Spouting Stout is an 8 sec channeled cast that deals fire damage every 2 seconds and spawns fire pools on the ground, some of them also spawn Brew Drops.
- Press a defensive for the Spouting Stout cast and cleave down Brew Drops efficiently without letting them reach the boss.
- Brew Drops always move towards I'pa.
- I'pa consumes any Brew Drop it touches, inflicting fire damage to all players and granting I'pa an absorb shield.
- Brew Drops gain energy over time while they are alive, upon reaching 100 energy they increase their movement speed by 200%.
- Spawns Oozing Honey on the ground upon death.
- Oozing Honey shrinks over time and respawns the Brew Drop whenever the pool is fully dissolved.

- Punches the current target, inflicting physical damage and knocking him back.
- Because of Fill 'Er Up, the positioning of the boss is very important. As a tank be careful of where you are getting knocked to avoid consuming any Brew Drops.

- Fire Magic DoT which is applied to 2 random players.
- Help your healer with dispelling it if you can with spells like Singe Magic, Mass Dispel or racials like Stoneform.
- If you can't dispel a second dot, press a small defensive for it.

Benk Buzzbee Thrash Area
- Swarming Surprise
- An AoE cast that inflicts physical damage to nearby players.
- Applies a stacking debuff that increases damage taken from Swarming Surprise.
- An AoE cast that inflicts physical damage to nearby players.
- Beeswax
- Venture Co. Honey Harvester stuns any player around him and inflicts physical damage to them.
- This is a Magic stun and can be dispelled.
- Venture Co. Honey Harvester stuns any player around him and inflicts physical damage to them.

- Required Kick:
- Bee-stial Wrath
- Enrages the caster and nearby bees, increasing their damage.
- Bee-stial Wrath is an Enrage buff. Try to soothe it if you miss a kick.
- Enrages the caster and nearby bees, increasing their damage.
- Bee-stial Wrath
- Shoot
- Shoots the target, inflicting physical damage.
- Bee-Zooka
- A long fixated cast on a random player that shoots a bee in a frontal line, inflicting fire damage and knocking anyone standing in the line.
- Can be outranged to fully avoid getting hit and knocked by it.
- A long fixated cast on a random player that shoots a bee in a frontal line, inflicting fire damage and knocking anyone standing in the line.

- Required Kick:
- Honey Volley
- An AoE cast that deals nature damage and slows any player within 60 yards.
- Honey Volley
- Rain of Honey
- Spawns pools on the ground which deals nature damage to targets within the impact.

- Required Bleed Dispel:
- Shredding Sting
- Applies a stacking Bleed debuff to a random player.
- Dispel it whenever a player has multiple stacks of those.
- Shredding Sting
- Final Sting
- A long cast that inflicts fire damage upon succeeding on its target.
- Worker Bee dies right after casting it.
- Starts casting it once Worker Bee is below 28% of hp.
- Deals pretty heavy damage on its target, make sure your tank is not taking too many of them at the same time.

- Required Magic Dispel:
- Bee Venom
- Applies a stacking Magic debuff to the tank that slows and inflicts nature damage.
- Bee Venom

Benk Buzzbee
- Benk Buzzbee spawns 3 barrels that attract Ravenous Cinderbees.
- Ravenous Cinderbees apply a Shredding Sting stacking Bleed to a random player. Be careful if you get multiple of those.
- Once a Ravenous Cinderbee is killed it can be mounted and used to charge and destroy the barrels.
- Simply mount one of them, aim towards the barrel and press the new ability on the bars.
- Defeated Ravenous Cinderbee disappear once the new cast of Snack Time happens.

- Benk Buzzbee applies a debuff on his target that inflicts damage to anyone within 6 yards of the target upon the expiration.
- Leaves a pool on the ground that deals fire damage to players within it.

- A 2 second channeled cast during which Benk Buzzbee pushes players away and inflicts nature damage to them.
- Press a defensive and be careful to not get pushed back into Honey Marinade pools.

Goldie Baronbottom Thrash Area
- Field Promotion
- Increases the damage done and fully heals all nearby Yes Mans whenever a Yes Man dies. This effect stacks.
- This makes AoE in this pack pointless, make sure to focus the same Yes Man together with the group one by one.
- Increases the damage done and fully heals all nearby Yes Mans whenever a Yes Man dies. This effect stacks.
- Downward Trend
- Yes Man leaps towards a random player, inflicting physical damage on impact to any player around him and causing them to Bleed.

Goldie Baronbottom
- Goldie Baronbottom fills the room with multiple of Cinderbrew Bombs.
- Cinderbrew Bombs detonate upon being struck by any of the other boss abilities.
- Once detonated, each Bomb will erupt and send out waves of fire.
- 4 of the Cinderbrew Bombs are going to be Volatile. Main difference of a Volatile Bomb is that it will apply a Cindering Wound stack to every player upon detonation.
- Your strategy should revolve around never getting more than 2 stacks of Cindering Wounds at once. There are two ways to achieve that, you either:
- Get first Volatile Bomb with the very first Cash Cannon of the phase and then one Volatile Bomb each time you get a Burning Ricochet.
- Get every Volatile Bomb only with Cash Cannon.
- Be careful as any Cash Cannon other than the very first one of the phase will overlap with Burning Ricochet timing so it will extend the duration of the Cindering Wound DoT.
- Once Let It Hail! happens, all bombs are going to detonate together.

- Upon reaching 100 energy detonates every Cinderbrew Bomb and deals fire damage every second for 5 seconds.
- Always press a big defensive during this cast.

- A fire DoT that is applied to 2 random players.
- Upon application it can ricochet to other players or a Cinderbrew Bomb.
- Cinderbrew Bombs will detonate if they are being cleaved with Burning Ricochet.
- If you are not detonating a Volatile Bomb then try to hit at least a few normal Cinderbrew Bombs to make dodging easier later on during the Let It Hail! cast.
- Upon application it can ricochet to other players or a Cinderbrew Bomb.

- A tank frontal cone that inflicts physical damage and knocks any player struck.
- Any Cinderbrew Bomb hit by it erupts.
- Never hit a Volatile Bomb with it if you already have a stack of Cindering Wounds active.

Dungeon Extras + Specials
Cinderbrew Meadery dungeon has 2 special items that can be used by certain professions or races.

Cooking Pot
- Requires at least 25 skill in Alchemy or Cooking.
- Can be used once over the next 3 minutes.
- Sticky Honey - throws a glob of sticky honey at a location, splashing up to 8 targets including players, reducing their haste and movement speed for 9 seconds.
- Not very impactful but still can be utilized in a small pull to reduce the danger of the pack. Make sure to not hit your teammates with it as it also goes on players too.

Flamethrower
- Requires to be a Gnome, Goblin, Mechagnome or to have at least 25 skill in Engineering.
- Can be used once over the next minute.
- Flame On! - strikes enemies in front of the caster inflicting 1% of their maximum health every second over the next 4 seconds and disorienting them for 5 seconds.
- Disorient in this case is a hard cc, making it an AoE stun.
- Very useful and should be used on the hardest pack in the relevant area.

Lootpool
Type | Item |
---|---|
Trinket | Cinderbrew Stein |
Trinket | Ravenous Honey Buzzer |
Trinket | Synergistic Brewterializer |
Neck | Strapped Rescue-Keg |
Ring | 85-Year Tenure Ring |
Type | Item |
---|---|
2-Hand Mace | Hivebreaker's Dipper |
2-Hand Staff | Sticky Stirring Stick |
1-Hand Mace | Crusher of the Unsettled |
1-Hand Axe | Profit Divider |
Dagger | Scalding Queenmaker's Shiv |
Off-hand | Vessel of the Beverage |
ALL
Type | Item |
---|---|
Back | Chef Chewie's Towel |
Cloth
Type | Item |
---|---|
Head | Cinderbrew-Soaked Cowl |
Shoulder | Moneymaking Businessmantle |
Hands | Punctured Apiary Gloves |
Leather
Type | Item |
---|---|
Shoulder | Fireproof Cinderbee Perch |
Wrist | Battle-Scarred Fisticuffs |
Waist | Brewery Toiler's Waistband |
Feet | Backbreaking Bootstrappers |
Type | Item |
---|---|
Head | "Azeroth's Greatest BEE.E.O." Cap |
Wrist | I'pa's Pale Aleguards |
Legs | Pollen-Lugger Treads |
Plate
Type | Item |
---|---|
Shoulder | Foam-Ridden Pauldrons |
Chest | Slashproof Business Plate |
Wrist | Fuzzy Cindercuffs |
Feet | Hops-Laden Greatboots |
Credits
Written By: Wexi
Reviewed By: Xerwo